A Friday Megalink Post

Ken from Fang’s Bites with the Friday megalinks and plenty of stuff to go over today. Let’s start it off with the Weekend Viewing Picks.

College Basketball is in the midst of some great matchups with conference action, but starting tonight, the mid-major conferences take precedence as the ESPN family of networks will air a total of 13 games involving mid-major teams jockeying for position for the NCAA Tournament. One of the marquee matchups will be Butler at Davidson at noon on ESPN. But ESPN’s feature game will be Oklahoma at Texas Saturday night at 9. For a full schedule of games, check out the College Basketball Viewing Picks.

The Bruins play on both Saturday and Sunday in Florida, first taking on the Panthers Saturday night at 7, then turning around the following day to take on the Lightning at 5 p.m.

For the first time, CBC’s Hockey Day in Canada will be widely available in the United States via the NHL Network. It begins at noon on Saturday and all six Canadian teams will be involved in three games, Ottawa at Montreal at 3 p.m., Vancouver at Toronto at 7 p.m. then Calgary at Edmonton at 10 p.m. CBC will be live mostly from New Campbellton, New Brunswick and from various sites all over Canada to celebrate the country’s national pastime.

NBC’s NHL Game of the Week will have Pittsburgh taking on the Washington Capitals, Sunday at 12:30 p.m. (WHDH, NBC10).

The NBA will have one feature game on Sunday on ABC (WCVB, WMUR and ABC6) and it involves your defending world champion Boston Celtics taking on Phoenix at 2:30 p.m., then ESPN has a doubleheader with Miami at Orlando and Detroit at Cleveland starting at 5 p.m.

The PGA Tour’s last event before Tiger Woods’ return is the Northern Trust Open and CBS (WBZ, WPRI) has coverage starting at 3 p.m. Saturday.

NASCAR’s second race of the season is the Auto Club 500 on Fox 25 and Fox 64, Sunday at 5 p.m.

NBC has coverage of the American Cup gymnastics event at 4 p.m.

Spike will have taped coverage of UFC 95 from London, Saturday night at 9.

Ed Meza of Variety writes that Swiss-based Sportfive has won the bid for European media rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics, taking over for long-time Olympics partner, the European Broadcasting Union.

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A former award-winning radio reporter, Ken Fang lives in Rhode Island and blogs at Fang's Bites and Fang's Bites at BSMW. You can also follow him on Twitter and Facebook. In addition to sports media, he is addicted to The Amazing Race and Mad Men.